Lars von Trier

Last spring, during Easter dinner, my aunt leaned across the table and asked: "Chris, have you read this 'Fifty Shades of Grey?'" I said I had not but I had heard about it and, changing the subject, had she read — "What's 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?" my mother asked. And so my aunt promptly explained the plot. I laughed, though none of it was intended to be funny. Then I realized there was a pressing magazine article I had to read in the next room and quietly excused myself while my aunt explained rough sex and bondage. I thought about this again recently. In the terrific new coffee-table book "The Book of Mormon: Testament of a...

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